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In reply to the discussion: Remember, Speaker Ryan? [View all]midnight
(26,624 posts)53. Some thoughts from cognidissidence:
"I don't think people asked me to be speaker so I can take more money from hardworking taxpayers to create some new federal entitlement. But I think people want to have members of Congress that represent them, that are like them," Ryan said. "Don't you want your member of Congress to be a citizen legislator who lives with you, among you, who has your own kinds of concerns, who wants to spend time with his children on Saturdays and Sundays?
Yes, we do and what is a concern is when someone in our family gets sick and we are living paycheck to paycheck and trying to figure out a way to take care of them and not lose our house.
Do you really think, if a member of Paul Ryans family was sick, he would come home and help take care of them BUT forfeit his pay while he was doing so?
Then there is also this gem,
"I live in Janesville, Wisconsin. I commute back and forth every week. I just work here. I dont live here," he said, per Politico. "I get up very early in the morning. I work out. I work until about 11:30 at night. I go to bed, and I do the same thing the next day. It actually makes me more efficient. I can actually get more work done by sleeping on a cot in my office, and Im going to keep doing it."
We were able to get a picture of Paul Ryan hard at work until 11:30 before he turned in on his cot.
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Why should he have to work in an environment that reeks of cigarette smoke?
passiveporcupine
Nov 2015
#34
Let's not forget he willingly tied himself to the rooftop of Mitt "the shits" presidential campaign
Augiedog
Nov 2015
#12